From robbers to royalty, a Pahlav AAR.

[zooeyglass]

This has been a fantastic AAR - excellent angle for the story, great style and exciting journey the pahlava are on. i really hope those CTDs can be resolved, it's such a pain in the arse. I nearly started a casse AAR and then it was ruined by a CTD. Oh well!

but please do continue, it's a great story.

regards

[johnhughthom]

Thanks for the feedback, unfortunately I doubt very much I'll be able to continue with this as I've tried everything I can think of to get the saves working. It's very frustrating as this is the only EB campaign, out of dozens, I have ever lost to a recurrring CTD. I'm playing Fallout 3 at the minute so no time for EB, but I plan to have another go at a Pahlava AAR in a few weeks and I want to do a reform guide as well. I really enjoyed that campaign and hope to get a proper Parthian Empire, maybe even a war with Rome, to share.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Why?! Why?! Why?!

Every single AAR I have seen end ended because of unbeatable CTD or a corrupted save. Your AAR was one of the best I have read, along with Chirurgeon's and MAA's. I find it very odd and sometimes even suspicious (although not your necessarily yours - especially since you said you were going to do another AAR) that AARs end that way. Is it normal to experience unbeatable CTDs and corrupted saves in EB while just casually playing (i.e. not making an AAR out of it)?

EDIT: Is it possible for you to post your savegame for maybe someone like bovi to possibly fix it/find out what's wrong?

[johnhughthom]

I tried the install validation and took bovi's advice on what was wrong, no luck unfortunately. I had noticed a higher than usual number of CTDs through the campaign but they weren't repeating CTDs until the last one, then all 3 saves I had wouldn't work. I'm going to have a test game for a few turns before I do a new AAR to make sure I don't have a corrupted install this time. I'm finding Fallout 3 very disappointing, not an RPG at all in my view, so I may start a new AAR sooner than I had imagined.

Edit:the save file is available here https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=109074 it's for a RTW.exe with only the permanent fixes. If you try it and it crashes I will know it's a corrupt save and I can give up trying to get it working...